Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

Diesel Supplies Likely to Remain Tight Ahead of 2024 Planting
While harvest is behind us in rural America, spring planting is ahead in 2024. Diesel fuel supplies have been tight for farmers. Erin Wroge, Refined Fuels Project Manager for the Alcivia Cooperative, ...
Curtis Media Dec 01, 2023

Some Improvements in Soil Moisture, More Rain on the Way
It was too early to tell last week when we talked with climatologist Corey Davis how much improvement we would see to the drought conditions across North and South Carolina from the rains we got. He...
Curtis Media Nov 30, 2023
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday December 1
This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.Corn and wheat were finally able to build some momentum on Thursday. December co...
Curtis Media Nov 30, 2023

The Yonder Report
Congress has iced the Farm Bill, but farmer advocates argue some portions are urgent; the Hoosier State is reaping big rewards from wind and solar; and opponents react to a road through Alaska’s...
Curtis Media Nov 30, 2023

FMMO Hearings Resume
Hearings to modernize Federal Milk Marketing Orders have resumed with a lot of work ahead. Roger Cryan, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about where the hearings are at i...
Curtis Media Nov 30, 2023

Shrinking Cattle Herd May Continue Until Fall of 2024
The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in a long time. Lance Zimmerman, senior beef and cattle market analyst for Rabobank, says producers are still contracting their herd sizes."Yeah, we are....
Curtis Media Nov 29, 2023

Helping Longleaf Pine Trees Make a Comeback
Here’s to the land of the longleaf pine...so begins the state toast of North Carolina, but much of that longleaf forest in North Carolina has been lost to clearcutting for the tar and turpentine...
Curtis Media Nov 29, 2023

Ag Growth Rate Continues to Slow
A new report shows agricultural growth is slowing just as ag leaders say it needs to be ramping up to meet the needs of an exploding world population.In the last decade, the world's agricultural outpu...
Curtis Media Nov 29, 2023

Mapping a Path to a Potential Ag Career
Crop data, whether it’s weather, crop condition, crop model information, or any number of agricultural statistics, these data resources are useful and, in many cases, can stand alone. That’...
Curtis Media Nov 28, 2023

Jury Rules Egg Producers Conspired to Fix Prices
An Illinois jury found that several of the country's major egg producers conspired to limit America's supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Se...
Curtis Media Nov 28, 2023
